LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 103, 18 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

0)1 our iourLli under tlx; til3i* of , " H<n:ic Industry a* d Home Heroism," will be found the fiiM, instalment of an account of of a writers (-.xju'rionccs in the Ji'asi. Knd oF London. The narrative J'orms a i'iiiiid'nl pen picture of incidents and seem s aixjui which Jew peuplc iu this laud have any knowledge.

Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow: —6 a.m., Gairloch (from North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North). The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and the Land Board meet to-day. The s.s. Oreti arrived at Westport from New Plymouth on Sunday afternoon.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands has forwarded to us particulars of lands in the Stratlord, 'laranaki, Omona, Clifton, Mimi, Capo, Waitara, Ngatimaru, and Pouatu districts now open for selection. Plans can be seen at all Post Offices. A Press cable from London announces that Mrs. Gladstone is to be buried at Westminster Abbey. This is in accord with the arrangement made when it was decided that the late Right Hon. W. IS. Gladstone should ! be buried in the Abbey.

A notice from the Taranaki Education Board, in reference to appointment of pupil teachers, appears in this issue.

A Press telegram from Wellington states that the jury which has been hearing McLeod's claim for damages against the Wel-lington-Manawatu Railway Company, on account of the loss of an eye through injuries sustained while passing through a tunnel, sat till after midnight and gave a verdjet for plaintiff for £7SU. His Honour, however, reserved the case for further consideration. Settlers in the southern districts of the North Island are pressing the railway authorities to reduce rates on store sheep. These are said to be prohibitive, and thousands of sheep travel the roads at the best time for fattening instead of using the railways.

In consequence of the action of the Municipal authorities in various places, notably Wellington, in classing pigeons among poultry, with a view to prohibition, the Wellington Homing Society has protested and appealed to the Defence Department. The Minister for Defence has replied that homing pigeons ought to be excepted from any such law.

Mr. Livesey, Manager of the South London Gas Company, says it is useless to try and raise the quality of gas by any process of enrichment, for the Welsbach burner requires heating and not illuminating power. He believes the time is not distant when the public will demand a non-luminous gas of higher heating power.

A telegram Home from Pekin at the middle of March says:—The ascendancy of the anti-foreign party is becoming more marked daily. The Dowager Empress appears to have determined to heap rewards upon those officials who exhibit marked hostility towards everything which is unChinese, Hen-tung, probably the most bitterly anti-foreign official in the Empire, has been given the three-eyed peacock's feather, a distinction which has been conferred upon only one other person in the last eighty years. The Daily A'etys has unearthed a lecture given by Mr. Otonwright Schreiner in October, 1893, prior to tile Jameson raid, in which he denounced the Bond for endeavouring to bring about the supremacy of the I Dutch element at the Cape, and expressed views on the native question diametrically opposed to those he now puts forward. Mr. Cronwright Schreiner has been the lion of the season among the pro-Boer party. Not even Dr. Leyds has done more for his employers than Mr. Cronwright Schreiner, but this revelation of his opinions about the Boers, the Bond and their policy only seven years ago is the most damaging exposure that any public man could have experienced. In the current number of The Toting Men's Magazine, Dr. Chappie discourses instructively on the subject of microorganic life in all its wondrous gradations, and sets forth in simple language the various influences exerted by beneficial and disease-producing germs. Speaking of the bacteria of soil and of decomposition, the doctor points out how necessary are their operations to the well-being of the cosmic entity, and proceeds to show that in the process of digestion every person ia assisted by a few millions of these dilletante labourers. Treating on pathogenic or disease-producing germs, Dr. Chappie gives a dissertation on the manner of proving the nature of a germ, and goes on to show how the one class of bacilli may be the cause of greatly-differing diseases. A very lengthy list of diseases caused by germs is given—ranging from pulmonary consumption to cancer—and some interesting experiments conducted by medical observers are detailed. Dealing with the subject of consumption and the übiquitous bacillus, the writer of the article strongly recommends.l sioging as an excellent method of prevention of the disease referred to, and in conclusion lays special stress on the desirableness of making rigorous inspections of dairies atld abattoirs. The necessity of isolating consumptives is also emphasised, while the disease of consumption is specifically referred to as infectious and preventable. The Tuapiika Times publishes a letter from General White received by Mr. Alexander Garden, Waitahuna, in answer to a communication from the latter to General White at Ladysmith congratulating him on his victory over the Boers on November !)th, and hoping that he might be always so victorious, and praying that God would watch over him and his brave men and preserve them amid the many dangers by which they were surrounded. General White's reply is as follows Your kind letter to me at Ladysmith was not delivered to me for a very long, but I cannot deny myself the pleasure, even at this late hour, of thanking you for your good wishes, which have borne the fruit you desired. The Boers' armed forces wrecked themselves against Ladysmith, and gave the great Empire, of which New Zealand is so important a part, 'time to put forth its strength and shield its S W Wrt Je,l,ioV ° IE0 ' OUIS vc ' r y trul y- George

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